the thing I came for: the wreck and not the story of the wreck the thing itself and not the myth the drowned face always staring toward the sun the evidence of damage worn by salt and away into this threadbare beauty the ribs of the disaster curving their assertion among the tentative haunters.
- from Diving into the Wreck by Adrienne Rich
Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jhumpa Lahiri, Cormac McCarthy, Adrienne Rich, Elizabeth McCracken, Carson McCullers, Marilynne Robinson, Sarah Waters.